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We saw Tangled the other day, on DVD. It's an awesome movie! My favorite part is the song where the thugs sing about their dreams, like being a concert pianist or a mime. :-D

Got "The Princess and the Frog" from the library earlier, gonna see that tomorrow or the next day! :-)

I saw the movie "Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears A Who" today! It's an awesome movie, very very funny. I think my favorite character of all (aside from Horton) was Katie. She was sooooo weird! We didn't get to see enough of her. And my *least* favorite character was the adult kangaroo. (A kangaroo in the jungle with elephants and monkeys? Must've escaped from a zoo.) She didn't believe Horton, and wasn't content to leave him alone. She wanted to destroy the clover the speck was on. Classic lines for her include "He's teaching the kids to use their imaginations!" like it's a bad thing. I'm not quite sure what position she was supposed to represent, aside from the skeptic. Maybe I was seeing subtext that wasn't really there. Anyway, she came around in the end.
All in all, an awesome movie. Three thumbs up!

Oh, the DVD had an animated short as well! "Surviving Sid," with characters from the Ice Age cartoons. That was pretty awesome too!

Last night I watched two movies! I watched the 2005 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front.

Willy Wonka

I love this movie! Though I didn't much care for the Oompa Loompa's new music, I couldn't understand most of what they were saying. And I liked the original Oompa Loompas and their music better. But I *did* enjoy the Oompa Loompa origin story, it was awesome! Their being in the factory always seemed a bit dodgy to me, like slave labor, but the new origin story shows their life is like heaven for them in the factory. And that one guy they had to play all the Oompa Loompas, he really is pretty short, though nowhere near as short as they make the Oompa Loompas.
I also liked the story arc about the relationship between Willy and his dad. I thought it was funny that the son of a dentist rebelled and became a chocolatier. And it was so cool that he was proud of his son anyway.

If I had to pick which one I like better, the old one or the new one, I couldn't. I like them both!

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

This movie was a little hard to get into at first, but once I got into it, it was a very touching movie. It's about Molly, an American Girl during world war II. The war is just about annoyances and film reels and stuff to her until her dad, a doctor, enlists to help care for wounded soldiers. Her perspective on the war changes over time because of this and because of tragedies people she knows have. Her life is further turned upside down by her mother taking a job and their family taking in a displaced British girl Molly's age, whom she has to share her room with. Things are very awkward between the two girls for a while, but eventually they warm up to each other and are good friends by the end.

Very good movie!